test, test, test, test, test test >> good evening and welcome to the san francisco land use committee. >> to my right is my supervisor jan kim and david chiu. i want to thank san francisco tv for the broadcast and a yes, please make sure to silence any electronic devises. items will be appearing on the may 14th docket >> and for anyone who wishes to

speak in public comment we have blue cards and you can fill one out. madam clerk, please call the two items and a be reflecting the amendments to the processes and public notice requirements >> thank you and i'm the author of item number one supervisor kim is the author of number two and it's before us for informational purposes only. so with regard to item number one this item creating for the first time a statutory appeal pursues to the board of supervisors for the negative declarations will create a defined process with a defined

deadline and improved noticing for primarily smaller projects, public projects and projects that do not require a full environmental impact report. i've stated this is the fourth hearing that the board of supervisors has attempted to codify those pursues in the last decade with the prior representatives. this is long overdue legislation a current process is i will defined and vaguely it's not good for people opposing projects and it's difficult and boarder line impossible for someone to know the deadline to file an appeal.

this is long overdue legislation and i'm happy to have neighborhood associations and others who are supporting this legislation. the legislation has done through an extensive process it's had 3 hearings at the historic prestige and the historic preservation committee has recommended the legislation and the planning commission has recommended the legislation. this is our third hearing i think. second or third hearing of the land use and economical committee. in addition we have i've engaged in robust decisions. we've had a number of small

meetings with individual groups and as a result of the public outreach we've made approximately 40 amendments to the legislation. at the last hearing president chiu offered several amendments that the committee adopted. i have several minor technical amendments that the planning department and city attorney recommended. i want to talk about them now. the first is hi, and these amendments have to do with a notice of determination is filed and data dumping. the first one is page 18 section 3811 after the word pursues add the quote and required you

payment fees by the sponsor and next on section 31.5 after the word pursues add quote and upon the payment of the required fees by the project sprorn. sponsor. and then 31 section delete the last sentence and add quote the clerk will distribute any written documents submitted by the boards normal pursues and such written materials will be part of the record. submitted later on noon the material will not be added as part of the record. and i also understand from the

city attorney there needs to be a technical correction to the title and ms. warren you want to commit on that. >> yes. the title has a phrase in that that should ever come out and that phrase is providing for the board to make the final sequa decision requiring action regarding sequa appeals. >> thank you so after public comment i'll be asking the count i committee to adopt the amendment and i'll all the one by ms. warren. >> thank you, mr. chewy want to take a moment and thank our deputy city attorney and as well as all the public stakeholders

after the amendments we offered two years ago, i brought more amendments to continue to insure that when the planning depended are making decisions those are properly noticed to the public. so i brought some additional amendments to run through. those are fairly technical but for the record i have an amendment that will be adopted to modify section 34 i that helps to modify the sequa decision and this will be provided on its website and in other manners as well. another amendment will provide in section 38.08 d that other departments should provide

planning with copies and planning shall make the information available on its website to deal with issues that other departments are making. and in section 31.08 when planning must prepare another sequa decide requires planning to provide the information when not triggered to make another sequa decision and another sequa decision it to be misdemeanor for any project under the use not previously included in the issue to get at the modified projects. and a fourth amendment would clarify 38.14 e that the project sponsor has paid any fees for

filing and another section that once i once the clerk has scheduled an appeal for planning other departments are not to get involved. this would add passage back to the language that the clerk would scheduled the report and with this revision the clerk must scheduled the hearing nonetheless thirty days after the appeal has expired. and also one the planning assaults the clerk of the board in determining the timelyness of the board and in a timely fashion. and the last amendment would make a technical correction by deleting the language - actually did you do that all right.

already? again those are all amendments to increase notification and public outreach and clarify a couple of amendments. i do have a couple of questions to the planning department. i want to make sure that rick is here yet. if you wouldn't mind coming to the board chamber i want to make sure that this is dealt with. i know there was some decision about affordable housing projects as well as bike and safety projects. i want to have a little bit more clarity and your thoughts on how to handle those. >> thank you supervisors planning department staff. we - the issue of prioritization

was talked about extensively. the specific timeframe on the sequa issue will be within thirty days. that one decision that happens on a project would be codified. what we do now and what we've can you think in the department is prioritize affordable housing projects in our cue so the projects does not wait in the cue. and the staff believes that that was the more appropriate way to deal with that. the staff asks us to look at 4 specific issues that came up in their decisions and in

supervisors issues. we specifically are going to look at what it means means to prioritize. we have made housing affordability a top issue. >> i had contemplated some language but i appreciate that feedback. a different question is the interaction between the supervisors and scheduling appeals. there have been some concerns about the planning department in order for the board to act as we are required under the law. i would like to have some exchange on that. to make sure the requirements will be doable from the boards

prospective do you have any comments. and actually why don't we start. i know we've put in some language that requires the planning department to sought the board of supervisors but whether we should ask the planning department to do its work in a certain period of time? >> actually, i just got off the phone and we were going over the suggestive language to make sure we're in the timeframe. specifically maybe taking out the clerk of the board and that the planning department what have 3 days to - and then the clerk would have 7 days to respond to the appellant to make sure that the public has an idea

of when 31 they will get their response >> let's start with planning and our city attorney and probably the author of the original legislation. if this is making sure the transcripts are running at the right time. so sir. >> good afternoon supervisors sarah. i think that days for us to review the submit alleywayal to and provided the board with whether it's a timely schedule for the appeal. under the legislation an appeal could be filed prior to an perusal action so we as the planning department would have to provide information to the

clerk's office. and if it had not occurred we need to provide information later to the board of the clerks action. and that's something we feel we could accomplish within the 3 daytime frame suggested >> okay. so 3 days for planning and 3 days for the board. >> we have no problem with that but i think elaine warren can provided a better response. >> and ms. warren do you have any thoughts. >> i don't see any problem with changing the language that now reads as the clerk will determine the completeness of the packet to say 7 and add a separate provision that says that planning will make a determination on the timeliness of the issue within 3 business

days. >> okay. and the author did you have any questions? >> yep. so in terms we're keeping everything calory the amendments so far are the ones i outlined so as changed in the title outline by ms. warren president chiu describes several amendments and i'm supportive of those amendments. and then the clerk - outlined in the amendment i'm also supportive of. so i think it's good to work those details out so we're not driving the clerk crazy with our pursues >> and i understand in the planning commission there was

some discussion around the website so we can understand this and apparently there was some discussion that your department feels their might be some arrays issues around operating an auto made notification system. could you talk a little bit about that? and we should put in some additional language. i think if that's the case i'm concerned. i want to understand that issue so we can hopefully address that. >> certainty we have a number of improvements that are happening at the planning department at our tracking and a notification and communication

systems. upgrades to the website. we're prepping to put in plays i will a new e-mail system that i understand would could be accommodated to provide some levels of permits that were issued as well as documents that have occurred. in terms of the specifics of a prescription based system there are some types of categories that we could accommodate. those that are troeltdz aspects of projects that are already tracked such as the planning neighborhood their located in. this is something that is auto made and we could do. other